I love weddings. If only we are rich, I might get married again and again. LOL.

Weddings are also one of my husband's favorite events to cover. He does photography as his sideline and hobby and he says that he enjoys to cover weddings more than any other events.

His last wedding coverage was last January, when he covered the wedding of his colleague, Relly and Leiza. They had a prenuptial pictorial at La Mesa Eco Park and my hubby and the couple really had fun during the shoot. Here are some shots from the pictorial:


The church ceremony was held at St. Rita De Cascia Parish and the reception was held at Sulu Hotel. I was looking at the pictures after the event and one of my favorite are the wedding flowers. And I was even more surprised when the bride spilled to me the cost for their flowers. It was really affordable but the flowers were just so fantastic. They got the flowers at a wholesale price and the flowers are ship overnight fresh from the flower farms so the flowers look fresh and gorgeous during the wedding ceremony.

Hubby has been really busy with work lately that he does not have enough time for his hobby but I hope he gets a wedding coverage soon as I know how much he enjoys covering weddings.

When Howell left for the US last June, he declined a number of bookings since he won’t be here in Manila during the event. When he came back from his training, business became slow and there are times that we won’t receive any bookings in a month.

But looks like November is a good month for Howell’s sideline as he already booked two events this November – a birthday party and baptism. Then he has another wedding this coming December. It looks like he will be busy starting next month which is just in time for the coming expenses this Christmas season. LOL.

I woke up around two AM last night and I saw my husband still in front of the computer. Look what he has been busy with:

He will be covering a wedding this coming September 19 where he will be the official photographer. The client is a colleague so he is also helping them out with the wedding preparations by not just being their photographer, but my husband has been helping them with other details of the wedding since his colleague knows that we personally prepared for all the aspects of our wedding when we got married last 2005.

The couple wants a unique personalized wedding favors and so they are asking for his suggestions since we had a personalized wedding favors too during our wedding. And so he decided to dig in to our wedding pictures to look for the picture of our wedding favors.

He got so inspired after looking through all our wedding pictures that he even made an entry about it in his blog.

They finished another album lay out again for another client. My uncle was the one who did the lay out this time. He is a graphics artist and he is really good with Adobe so we hired him to do the lay out for this client since Howell is really busy with work.

Howell uploaded the pictures at their multiply site. You can check it here: http://fokalente.multiply.com/

Bela didn’t sleep with us this evening. She slept at her lola house so I was able to do some post while waiting for Howell to arrive from her photo shoot.

He covered a 60th birthday party at Barbara’s in Intramuros. He must be really tired as he immediately fell asleep as soon as he arrived home. He turned on my laptop because he needs to download the pictures from his memory card but he fell asleep while waiting for the laptop to boot up.

Tomorrow he will have another shoot in the morning before we leave for Bela’s class at the Little Gym. I know he must be really tired from doing all this photo shoots. Sometimes I even tell him to stop accepting bookings because I don’t want him to drain his body but according to him, he is really enjoying it. Oh well, as long as he is happy, then I am happy too.

Yehey. I received another confirmed booking for Fokalente Fotograpi. This will give Howell the extra cash that he needs to purchase the battery grip for his canon 40D.

Actually he already has the cash to buy the battery grip. He got it from his three bookings this March. But being the selfless dad that he is, he decided to delay his purchase of his battery grip so we can use the money to buy our tickets for Dora and friends Pirate Adventure show. I told him it's ok if we don't watch the show but according to Howell, his battery grip can wait because her princess Bela is always her first priority.

And God is really good since I just got a confirmation today from my officemate that they will be getting Howell for her mother's birthday party this coming April 13. So I'm really happy and thankful. At least hubby doesn't have to wait that long to buy the battery grip.

Just got another confirmation for a photo-video coverage on January 12. We now have 5 bookings for January – 2 birthdays, 2 weddings and 1 debut. Looks like Howell’s sideline is off to a good start. Sana tuloy tuloy na ang pag pick up ng business.

So if ever you have photo-video requirements, just leave me a message and I’ll forward you our packages. Syempre may discount ang mga mommy bloggers. LOL.

So dad, pwede mo a dagdagan budget natin for Bohol?…LOL.

I’ve been wanting to post this for months now but I have to wait for it be aired first.

So here it is, my husband’s first TV exposure. Not as an actor of course, but as a photographer.

Day Off, one of the prime time shows at GMA’s QTV, celebrated its anniversary by treating 100 winners for a day off and my husband was the official photographer for the studio event.

Below are some of the pictures that he took.

The second part of the anniversary special will be shown next Saturday at QTV at 8:30PM.

Do watch out for the last part because Fokalente (our business name) will be flashed during the credits section. LOL

Hubby just finished their first event for November, the 66th birthday of Engr. Junior Co. Engr. Co is the grand father of my cousin’s (our videographer) best friend.

Business is starting to peak up as they always have 3-4 bookings in a month so we are really thankful. Hopefully, more bookings will start to come in so Howell can save again for our next family vacation. LOL.

And by the way, they just gave me a tip as their booking agent/secretary. LOL. My first salary since they started their photography business.